Davies Group

Davies Group works at the intersection of public affairs and crisis communication, with a client focus on natural resources, renewable energy, and land use projects that often collide with regulatory, permitting, and political obstacles. From offices in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., the firm builds its work on market research and message development, then carries that groundwork into engagement strategies aimed at community and political stakeholders rather than general audiences.

Issues management sits alongside crisis communication as a core practice: Davies Group develops crisis communications playbooks, runs risk and control assessments, and staffs media monitoring for rapid response when a client is under pressure. Grassroots programs and community outreach extend that work beyond the press cycle, pairing advocacy efforts with creative and digital execution so that messaging reaches the people who can affect a project's regulatory or political fate, not just reporters.

The firm's crisis experience spans international media attention following energy accidents to statewide controversies over housing, giving it a working familiarity with disputes that move quickly from local to national scrutiny. Its stated disciplines, research, messaging, community outreach, crisis, media relations, advocacy, creative, and digital, reflect a practice built to manage a single conflict from early research through sustained media relations, rather than handling communications and advocacy as separate functions.